| 100% | HANDS | 5 | What are needed to play the last-word theme of the puzzle |
| 57% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 57% | WICHITALINEMAN | 14 | Glen Campbell hit, the last word of which is this puzzle's theme |
| 56% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 55% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 55% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 53% | MEDS | 4 | Last-word theme of the puzzle |
| 50% | BURRITOFILLINGS | 15 | What the last words of 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across might be |
| 49% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 49% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 49% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 48% | MAKEITADOUBLE | 13 | Request to a bartender, and what must be done to the last words of 20-, 30-, 36-, and 47-Across for the answers to match their clues |
| 48% | INTERNET | 8 | What is needed to surf the web |
| 48% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 48% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 48% | IBELIEVEICANFLY | 15 | R. Kelly hit whose last title word is aptly rhymed with "sky" in the lyrics ... and a hint to the starts of the other four longest puzzle answers |
| 48% | MARKETS | 7 | What the last words of 17- and 61-Across and 10- and 25-Down are kinds of |
| 48% | PAPERBACK | 9 | Softcover book, and what the last words of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 48% | SPOILERALERT | 12 | Movie reviewer's warning ... or what the last words of each starred answer can be? |
| 48% | INREVERSE | 9 | One way to drive ... and what the last word of each starred clue really means |
| 48% | NOID | 4 | Reason to be barred from a bar ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 47% | INTERNET | 8 | What is needed to surf the web, Wi-Fi |
| 47% | BUMPHEADS | 9 | Disagree ... or, literally, what the last words of 18-, 23-, 35-, and 49-Across can be |
| 47% | HORSETRAILERS | 13 | Equestrian transport vehicles, and what the last words of 20-, 25-, and 45-Across can be |
| 47% | STARTOFSPRING | 13 | Vernal equinox, and what the last words of 17-, 26-, 48- and 60-Across might be considered |
| 47% | ENDGAME | 7 | Chess match climax, and what the last word of each answer to a starred clue can have |
| 47% | GOD | 3 | What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer |
| 47% | COCONUT | 7 | Palm fruit ... or what the creator of this puzzle's theme apparently is? |
| 46% | LOSSLEADER | 10 | Retailer's drawing card, and what the last words of 17-, 23-, 36- and 47-Across can be |
| 46% | NUTSANDBOLTS | 12 | Essentials, or what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are |